Over the past two decades the use of step therapy or edits by health insurers has increased significantly. Step therapy, also called step edits, implies that in a given therapeutic class lower cost ...

Your health insurance plan includes a list called a formulary -- a directory of the drugs it covers. If you've ever been stunned at how much it cost you to fill a prescription, it’s possible that ...

Objectives: In an attempt to increase the efficiency of their drug benefit policies, insurers are increasingly excluding drugs from their formularies that they deem to be of low value. Our objective ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aesynt™, the leading provider of enterprise-wide medication management for all medication forms, today introduced Formulary Toolkit, a program which provides ...

Placing formulary restrictions on brand name drugs shifts use toward generics, lowers the cost per prescription fill, and has minimal impact on overall adherence for antidiabetes, antihyperlipidemia, ...

Impact of applying machine learning to the electronic medical record on prediction of cancer-associated thrombosis. Breakdown for provider order entry and pharmacist review with and without drug ...

Reversing non-formulary status will usually require new data. The message developed in this article is that for products not on a hospital’s formulary, getting on formulary goes beyond what might be ...

People have the right to be involved in discussions and make informed decisions about their care, as described in NICE's information on making decisions about your care. Making decisions using NICE ...